Re: [PULL v2 00/52] Misc patches for QEMU 5.1 soft freeze

[Max Reitz]

On 10.07.20 17:42, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:31, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10.07.20 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> readarray only arrived sometime in bash 4, and the OSX system
>>> bash is 3.2.57, so it won't have that builtin.
>>
>> It arrived with 4.0, actually, which was released 11 years ago.
>> I had assumed that would be sufficiently mature.
>>
>> So, um, 11 years isn’t sufficiently mature then and I’ll have to work
>> around not having readarray for macOS?
> 
> It's the usual Apple-vs-GPL3 issue.
> 
> I note that the iotests do seem to regularly run into
> non-portable constructs: Kevin's latest pullreq has
> just failed due to a use of 'truncate' that doesn't
> work on the BSDs.

:/

I’ll send a patch to drop readarray.

Max